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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 4051 (Introduced in Senate) — To improve the ability of law enforcement agencies to access encrypted data, and for other purposes. · Sec. 402

Sec. 402. Defining technical assistance

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Section 3127 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (5), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: the term technical assistance includes— isolating all dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information authorized to be acquired; decrypting, decoding, or otherwise providing in an intelligible format the dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information authorized to be acquired, unless the independent actions of an unaffiliated entity make it technically impossible to do so; and delivering all dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information authorized to be acquired securely, reliably, and concurrently with its transmission. .
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